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I always feel bad when my efforts to eat local interfere with other things in my life. Last week,  I turned down a friend’s offer to go hang out on a boat and watch the sunset during the longest day of the year because I had bought all the ingredients to cook a local meal. [...]

So, I missed last week’s OLS posting (I did manage a quick local meal–and that post is to come). But this week, I finally had the time to do my local foodshed justice.
About six months ago, I learned of Curtis Womach, and the pastured chicken farm he and a partner started out in Julian (about [...]

Good things are growing in San Diego these days. Like this amazing organization that has sprung onto the scene: Victory Gardens San Diego.
I’m incredibly excited about what VGSD is doing. First, the organization is actually a collaboration of over a dozen local groups who kind of banded together to make things happen when they realized [...]

As I’ve said numerous times, one of my favorite exercises on this blog has been One Local Summer. In participating, you commit to preparing, eating, and blogging about one completely-local meal a week, for each of the 10 weeks of the summer. I started it in 2007, and I’m delighted to be able to participate [...]

That’s just over 10 days to plan your route, inflate your tires, and take a few practice laps around the neighborhood. When you’re ready, register here to count your commuting miles toward the event total. Find maps and more on the Bike to Work Day website.

I put together a list of food writing resources to give to those who came to the food writing workshop at the Cultivating Food Justice conference today, and I figured it would also be helpful to post it for the general internets to find.

Food Writing Resources
Books
Allen, Gary. The Resource Guide for Food Writers. Oxford, [...]

I don’t know what it feels like to give birth, but I really think it’s gotta feel something like this.

THIS beet …

…came from MY garden. I’m so proud!
You can’t really tell the size from that photo. But it’s huge!

Here it is next to some La Milpa beets.
I can’t believe I am even able to compare [...]

I’ve got two words for you tonight: Spaghetti Carbonara. Quick, easy, and (best of all when you are dishwasher-less) it only dirties two pots. Plus, I think it costs all of $5 for two, and that’s with some amazing pastured eggs and Knight Salumi pancetta.

Just look at the eggy goodness:

As for recipes, I went with [...]

Flipping through some old magazines last night, I came across Wendell Berry’s essay, “The Pleasures of Eating,” from his 1990 What are People For?. I read it at lunch today, then spent the entire afternoon hoping it was online somewhere so I could share it. Low and behold, here it is.
I’m not going to quote [...]

Not to rain on anyone’s bacon parade, but I did a little research the other day, and bacon is linked to NO FEWER THAN 13 types of cancer. We’ve got:

bladder
stomach
prostate
colon
lung
oral
pharyngeal
laryngeal
esophageal
small intestinal
pancreatic
large intestinal
brain

Yes, bacon can give you brain cancer. Not that one serving of bacon explosion is going to kill you, but if, say, you’re contemplating [...]